A number of people wrote to tell me I was really confused (some in words not quite so polite) because of the news post yesterday where I said that Ron Perlman had ‘apparently never heard of Halo’. Um… yeah, I know Ron Perlman voiced the part of Lord Hood in Halo 2. It was supposed to be funny. (He said it, not me – I was just amused by it.) I guess I should be more direct when I’m pointing out funny stuff. Sorry about that. (You guys can stop writing nasty notes now, though. Thanks.)

Wow, cool. Feenix writes to point out that the Cover DVD for the current issue of Xbox World 360 Magazine in the UK has the full half-hour machinima ‘The Heart is a Lonely Hunter’ on it – in full DVD quality. While you can download this movie from us (either in pieces, or as a single video) or from the HiaLH website – you CANNOT see it in full-screen glory unless you grab this mag. Nice!

The MLG PwnCast is back – with a new website, and a new episode. Go check ’em out! (Next week, Episode 5 will feature Lil Poison!)

1Up.com has put up a piece called ‘Top Ten WTF Moments of 2005‘ – and coming in at number 7 (heh) is ‘Spartan in DOA’. The reason it made the list? “Because when you think of one-on-one, boob jiggling martial arts action, you think of Halo.” Fair enough! Thanks, 3Suns.

A Master Chief resin sculpture (these were promotional items in Europe last year) is up for sale on eBay. We’ve mentioned these before – but they’re usually in Europe, and this one is in the US. Starting bid is $160, Buy it Now price is $210, and you’ve got almost 5 days to make up your mind (unless someone else buys it first). Thanks, Cassius.

Ron Perlman, who apparently has never heard of Halo, can’t imagine anyone but Guillermo del Toro directing Hellboy 2 (the script for which has been turned in, according to the interview). Swing by IESB for a video interview with the guy.

Mr.Sci-Fi put a Masterchief-ish paint job on his Xbox360 – looks fantastic! Take a look.

Shishka pointed out a really cool Halo 2 show car – originally found in a Bungie.net forum thread. Check it out – nice paint job!

Some time ago, we got a pretty interesting submission from John Space, who had created an Honors English school project in which Halo: First Strike was presented in Audio Book format. (The submission was an excerpt.) Character voices were done by John and Cheyenne Space, and friends Michael and Brendon Reed. The clip we have is 6 minutes long, and just under 3 mb – go listen! (And to John – I’d like to say publicly that I’m really sorry I never got back to this – thank Cheyenne for jogging my memory.)

Many people have been asking Stephen Loftus to put together a scale chart for Halo characters (he’s already done them for weapons and vehicles). He decided the best way to handle the situation was to give people the chance to compare any pair of characters – so swing by his new Character Scale Chart and you can do just that! Pretty nice work – and useful!

A whole bunch of people pointed out that there’s another M6D pistol for sale on eBay by the same guy we mentioned yesterday – there are 6 days left in the auction, so check it out! (I think Robert Patterson was first with the news… but thanks to everyone who noticed it.)

This should really be posted on the bungie.org front page, but nobody ever goes there (mostly because it hasn’t been updated in years)… we allowed our 7th birthday to pass unnoticed yesterday, and what might be worse… nobody noticed. (Bungie.org opened its doors on January 6, 1999, and has been serving the Bungie community every day since then. Without you, the fans, we’d be nothing – so thanks.) Eat some cake for us!

Jon Luke noticed another Press Start to Play comic with Halo content… heh.

Interesting. X1Zero noticed another Halo costume on eBay – but the opening bid seems awfully high to me, given the quality…

Actually, it could be *any* day next week in San Francisco… I’ll be in the area attending MacWorld expo. I’m renting a car and crashing at the home of a friend. But I’m also going to have my swanky projector with me, as well as Halo 1 and 2 discs, and my trusty controller and headset. Someone in the Bay Area must be willing to host a quick Halo LAN fest, right? Or if you know of a good gaming cafe, I’m open to that as well. So if you’re in the area and want to meet, let me know!

Dyslexia has written up Part II of his Battle of the Masses piece on MLG Chicago over at mlgpro.com. This portion focuses on the 4v4 teamplay, instead of the FFA stuff. The writeup (once again) is a great read, and really puts you there – or as close to there as you can get at this point, a few weeks later. Go read! Thanks, 3Suns.

PEZ points out some new features at halowiki.net – the Gamesaver can save stats from given games as wiki pages (useful to save that one-in-a-million game even when Bungie purges it from their servers), and you can now access recent games with a direct link (just add a slash and your gamertag to the end of that link). Nice!

Z sends word of Halzred’s 5th Montage Trailer over at halo2forum.com; if you’re a fan of heavy editing (‘heavy’ = ‘you can’t really tell what’s going on, the cuts are so fast and furious, and the effects are so thick’), go grab this one. 40 mb, just under 2 minutes.

Mintz points out that there’s quite a bit of new content over at Halo: Portable – new articles, new movies, if you’ve got a PSP, go download!

twooranges found a Fullsize resin cast model of the M6D pistol on eBay last night – it sold via Buy it Now less than an hour after that initial post, but the pictures will be up for another couple of weeks. Gorgeous piece of work! Worth $180? Yep, clearly, to the buyer! (The forum thread here degenerated into a whinge about the Halo 2 pistol’s strength, for the most part… but it looks pretty cool to me.)